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“The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.”
Source : Georg Baselitz, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1983). “Baselitz, paintings 1960-83”
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“The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!”
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“I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.”
Source : "Ellsworth Kelly: schilderijen en beelden 1963-1979". Exhibition catalogue by Ellsworth Kelly, Barbara Rose, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 'Notes from 1969', 1979.
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“nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!”
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“To read without joy is stupid.”
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“They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.”
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“When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.”
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“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”
